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	<title>Best Practices for Legal Education</title>
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		<title>Educating Teachers:  On Becoming a Student Again at the Summer Institute for Clinical Teaching</title>
		<link>http://bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org/2009/06/26/educating-teachers-on-becoming-a-student-again-at-the-summer-institute-for-clinical-teaching/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 21:11:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>blissgsu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have just returned from Washington, D.C., where I spent the last week fully immersed in clinical teaching methods at the second Summer Institute for Clinical Teaching at Georgetown University Law Center. There were approximately 25 attendees, many with years of teaching experience, who came from all over the country to engage in four days [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org&blog=1333490&post=913&subd=bestpracticeslegaled&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ideas from the Institute for Law Teaching and Learning Conference</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:14:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Lynch</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org/?p=911</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Implementing Best Practices &#38; Educating Lawyers:  Teaching Skills and Professionalism Across the Curriculum (POST 1)
Two  Favorite Teaching Techniques:  The Letter Exercise &#38; Hess’s 3R’s&#8221;. 
Here I am at Gonzaga U, in beautiful Spokane, Washington amidst a group of over 100 thoughtful and experienced law teachers and administrators who truly care about teaching, have studied what [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org&blog=1333490&post=911&subd=bestpracticeslegaled&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Collaboration Experiment:  Letting the Students Teach</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:42:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Kearns</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org/?p=908</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In response to several inquiries of Albany Law School’s Family Violence Litigation Clinic students concerning tax issues related to separation and divorce, we decided to engage in an experiment that turned out to be a huge success.   The Low Income Taxpayer Clinic (&#8221;LITC&#8221;) and Family Violence Litigation Clinic (&#8221;FVLC&#8221;) students were asked to prepare and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org&blog=1333490&post=908&subd=bestpracticeslegaled&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Best Practices and Supreme Court Nominee Judge Sonia Sotomayor: the Importance/Impact of Experience &amp; Intercultural Knowledge</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Lynch</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Best Practices & Setting Goals]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the right and the left examine and attack President Obama’s nominee,  Second Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Sonia Sotomayor, we should take a look at her from a “Best Practices” perspective.   Although the focus of Best Practices is the legal academy, its values transfer well to consideration of a Supreme Court nominee.
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		<title>Roy Stuckey Weighs in on Clinicians&#8217; Job Security</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 12:21:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cbgrose</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org/?p=889</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The debate about job security and status has been with us continually for over 30 years, and it will be with us for many years to come.  There is no most correct answer.  I can agree with almost everything that has been written in this [clinic list serv] stream.  The most important issue, however, is &#8230; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org&blog=1333490&post=889&subd=bestpracticeslegaled&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Future of Family Law Education</title>
		<link>http://bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org/2009/05/25/the-future-of-family-law-education/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 13:16:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cbgrose</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A family law education conference with topics and demonstrations to enliven your teaching. 
Friday, June 26-7, 2009 / William Mitchell College of Law / St. Paul, Minnesota 
Register Today! 
The Family Law Education Reform Project began a national effort to more closely align family law teaching with family law practice. This conference offers the opportunity [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org&blog=1333490&post=886&subd=bestpracticeslegaled&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Denver to Host Conference on Assessment Next Fall</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 19:54:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cbgrose</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am pleased to announce that the University of Denver will be hosting a conference in September focused on Assessment in Legal Education.  Here is the opening paragraph for the request for proposals.  Check out the RFP and Conference program at:
 http://law.du.edu/index.php/assessment-conference
 The University of Denver, Sturm College of Law requests proposals to participate in a working [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org&blog=1333490&post=882&subd=bestpracticeslegaled&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An Experiment in Outcomes-Based Education at one Law School</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 16:09:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cbgrose</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What follows are excerpts from a report presented to the William Mitchell faculty and administration, prepared by the &#8220;Future of Legal Education Task Force,&#8221; of which I am a member.  It&#8217;s exciting stuff.  We&#8217;ll see where it goes . . .
&#8220;William Mitchell’s Future of Legal Education Task Force began meeting during the fall of 2008 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org&blog=1333490&post=876&subd=bestpracticeslegaled&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>THE ROLE OF CRITICAL THEORY SCHOLARSHIP IN BEST PRACTICES</title>
		<link>http://bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org/2009/05/07/the-role-of-critical-theory-scholarship-in-best-practices/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 20:46:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Lynch</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Best Practices for Institutional Effectiveness]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As law schools and law faculty engage in legal education reform, the question arises: What is the role of critical theory or theory-critique?    Some of our friends and colleagues in the critical race, feminist, post-feminist and other theory-critique schools may feel left out of the dialogue/teaching initiatives when,  in fact, such &#8220;theory-critique&#8221; skills are an important [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org&blog=1333490&post=869&subd=bestpracticeslegaled&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>AALS Steps Forward on Best Practices, Carnegie and LEARN Recommendations</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 00:34:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Lynch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The AALS’s Standing Committee on Curriculum Issues sent an e-mail to law school deans and others last Friday requesting information about “ways in which law teachers are enriching their classroom teaching by bringing in background materials that go beyond the judicial opinion.”  Noting that the e-mails need not be elaborate and just a paragraph or [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org&blog=1333490&post=859&subd=bestpracticeslegaled&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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